{"id":23284,"date":"2018-11-29T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=23284"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:49:24","slug":"no-ashok-gehlot-was-not-waving-pakistans-flag-as-claimed-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-ashok-gehlot-was-not-waving-pakistans-flag-as-claimed-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Ashok Gehlot was not waving Pakistan’s flag as claimed on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video of Congress leader Ashok Gehlot has gone viral on social media. An individual user<\/a> on Facebook has shared with the caption, “\u0938\u093e\u092e\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u093e\u0915\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u093e \u091d\u0902\u0921\u093e \u0932\u0939\u0930\u093e\u092f\u093e \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0902 \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u0902\u091a \u092a\u0930 \u0917\u0939\u0932\u094b\u0924 \u0939\u0930\u093e \u091d\u0902\u0921\u093e \u095e\u0939\u0930\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0902<\/span> (Pakistan’s flag is waved in the front and Gehlot is waving a green flag on the stage -translated). <\/em>This post has been shared more than 1600 times and viewed in excess of 17000 times already.<\/p>\n

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Mahesh Vikram Hegde<\/a>, the founder of fake news website Postcard News also tweeted the same video.<\/p>\n

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Several social media users<\/a> have shared this video with the identical narrative. Another post by one Anil Sharma<\/a> claims that Pakistan’s national flag can be seen on the dais where Gehlot is present. It is based on a screengrab of Ashok Gehlot with a highlighted green flag in the background. This Facebook post has been shared close to 2900 times.<\/p>\n

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What is the truth?
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If you look closely, both the claims are based on the flag which is NOT the Pakistani national flag. In the images, the green flag with a crescent moon is a generic flag. It is used as a religious symbol by the Muslim community in the subcontinent. In the comparison given below, Pakistan’s national flag with a white patch on the left side can be seen. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

The pictures depicted in the above Facebook posts are representative of this religious banner and NOT Pakistan’s national flag.<\/p>\n

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Similar claim <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Drramgopal Varshney<\/a>, a Facebook user also posted a claim that the Pakistani flag was waved at a Congress rally. It has been shared more than 1400 times.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

In the past as well, this green coloured flag has been falsely represented as Pakistan’s national flag on social media to further a political agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A video of Congress leader Ashok Gehlot has gone viral on social media. An individual user on Facebook has shared with the caption, “\u0938\u093e\u092e\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u093e\u0915\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u093e \u091d\u0902\u0921\u093e \u0932\u0939\u0930\u093e\u092f\u093e \u091c\u093e \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0902 \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u0902\u091a \u092a\u0930 \u0917\u0939\u0932\u094b\u0924 \u0939\u0930\u093e \u091d\u0902\u0921\u093e \u095e\u0939\u0930\u093e \u0930\u0939\u0947\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0902 (Pakistan’s flag is waved in the front and Gehlot is waving a green flag on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":23341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-23284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Gehlot2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31015,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23284\/revisions\/31015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23284"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=23284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}